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Baron & Blue Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$252k
Granted FY2024still arriving
24
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Housing & Shelter$575kCrime & Legal$510kEducation$316kHuman Services$269kHealth$162kReligion$93kCivil Rights$88kYouth Development$46kOther$0
02FY2024 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $42k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $210k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FAMILY GATEWAY$20,000
AUSTIN STREET CENTER$15,000
THE STEWPOT OF FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$15,000
HOUSING FORWARD$15,000
THE FAMILY PLACE$15,000
THE BRIDGE HOMELESS RECOVERY CENTER$15,000
NEXUS RECOVERY CENTER$15,000
DALLAS FURNITURE BANK$15,000
METROCREST SERVICES$15,000
IN MY SHOES$10,000
GENESIS WOMEN'S SHELTER & SUPPORT$10,000
SOUL'S HARBOR$10,000
DALLAS HOLOCAUST & HUMAN RIGHTS MUSEUM$10,000
RAINBOW DAYS$10,000
SHARING LIFE COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC$10,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $329k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%METRO DALLAS HOMELESS ALLIANCE: $20k → 14%HOUSING FORWARD: $10k → 14%VOGEL ALCOVE: $15k → 14%VOGEL ALCOVE: $10k → 14%VOGEL ALCOVE: $10k → 14%MEN OF NEHEMIAH: $8k → 14%INTERFAITH FAMILY SERVICES: $10k → 14%INTERFAITH FAMILY SERVICES: $10k → 14%UNDER 1 ROOF: $25k → 14%UNDER 1 ROOF: $20k → 14%THE WHITE ROCK CENTER OF HOPE: $10k → 14%SOUPMOBILE: $5k → 14%HOUSING FORWARD: $15k → 14%OURCALLING INC: $10k → 14%OURCALLING INC: $10k → 14%SHARING LIFE COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC: $10k → 14%SHARING LIFE COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC: $6k → 14%METROCREST SERVICES: $15k → 14%THE FAMILY PLACE: $15k → 14%THE FAMILY PLACE: $15k → 14%PRISON ENTREPRENEURSHIP PROGRAM INC: $5k → 14%GOOD SAMARITANS OF GARLAND INC: $5k → 14%THE FAMILY PLACE: $10k → 14%THE BRIDGE: $25k → 14%GENESIS WOMEN'S SHELTER & SUPPORT: $10k → 14%GENESIS WOMEN'S SHELTER & SUPPORT: $10k → 14%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS: $1k → 14%METROCREST SERVICES: $5k → 14%HOPE SUPPLY CO: $5k → 14%METROCREST SERVICES: $5k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

MN
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MA
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IN
CO
NM
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DC
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US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.8M · 43 repeat orgs$399k to everyone else

43 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

43
40

Total granted

$1.8M
$379k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+23%

Still filing today

88%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHousing & ShelterHealthCrime & LegalCivil RightsInternationalOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • LA
    LEGAL AID OF NORTHWEST TEXAS
    3× · 2020–2022 · $308k · revenue +35%
  • FG
    FAMILY GATEWAY INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $80k · revenue +112%
  • BS
    BRIDGE STEPS
    3× · 2022–2024 · $50k · revenue +4%

Funded once

  • TJ
    TEXAS JUSTICE AND EDUCATION FUND
    one grant, 2020 · $75k · revenue -43% · 26% of their budget
  • DE
    DALLAS EVICTION ADVOCACY CENTER
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -27%
  • AA
    AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR JUSTICE EDUCATION FUNDgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +137%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Texas Defender Service

See Schedule OTDS fights for the end of mass incarceration and excessive punishment in Texas through direct representation, policy reform, and public education. TDS stands up for the dignity and humanity of people harmed by mass…

Civil Rights
2
Raise Texas

RAISE Texas advances equitable policies and programs that foster financial security and economic mobility for low- and moderate-income Texans. We equip, innovate and advocate to reduce disparities, remove barriers and build opportunities…

Human Services
3
Goodwill Industries of Dallas Inc

Goodwill Industries of Dallas, Inc. is a not-for-profit organization with a mission to help people with barriers to employment build skills, find jobs and reach their goals in life so that they can reach their full potential and experience…

Employment
4
Downtown Dallas Inc

Downtown Dallas, Inc. (DDI), is the champion of a clean and safe Downtown and of the economic development and vibrancy of this community of diverse, unique neighborhoods. DDI: Mobilizes and amplifies the services of public agencies.…

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5
Dallas International University

As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.

Education
6
Operation Care International Inc

Operation care international exists to glorify god. in obedience to his will, we connect impoverished children and the homeless to jesus christ providing for their physical needs through god's provision both at home and abroad.

Human Services
7
UnBound North Texas

Unbound North Texas exists to support survivors and resource the community to fight human trafficking through Survivor Advocacy, a 24/7 Drop-In Center, and Prevention and Awareness.

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8
Texas Legal Services Center Inc

Texas Legal Services Center is a nonprofit legal aid organization whose mission is to serve the undeserved by making civil justice accessible to every Texan--no matter their ability to earn. We're a coalition of attorneys, paralegals, pro…

Crime & Legal
9
Dallas Area Rape Crisis Center

To engage and educate communities to prevent sexual violence and to support survivors and their loved ones as they heal and thrive.

Human Services
10
Episcopal Foundation of Dallas

The foundation's mission is to strengthen and support faith communities by partnering wise investments with purposeful giving.

Religion
11
Tarrant County Homeless Coalition

Tarrant County Homeless Coalition leads the community solution to homelessness in greater Tarrant and Parker counties by serving as a catalyst for community transformation.

Human Services
12
LifeHouse of Houston Inc

LifeHouse is a Christ-centered ministry ensuring life for unborn children by providing opportunities for housing, help, and hope for young women during their pregnancies and beyond.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dallas Mission for Life Doing business as Dallas Life and the most unlike its peers is The Trial Lawyer Hall of Fame Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number25%1%<5yr16%6%5–10yr19%18%10–20yr16%23%20–35yr11%42%35–55yr13%10%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value25%3%<5yr16%6%5–10yr19%26%10–20yr16%15%20–35yr11%31%35–55yr13%20%55yr+

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/80
the rest of the field
15%
5,127/33,588

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

77 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 77 of the 89 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
75/77
Grantees still filing
55/77
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS AT DALLAS FOUNDATION — $300,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS AT DALLAS FOUND…FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH — $55,000 · OtherFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHAUSTIN STREET CENTER — $52,500 · OtherAUSTIN STREET CENTERAMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR JUSTICE EDUCATION FUND — $50,000 · OtherAMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR JUSTICE EDUCATIO…INTERDENOMINATIONAL MINISTERIAL ALLIANCE — $33,000 · Other+39 more — $299,642 · Other+39 moreUNDER 1 ROOF DALLAS — $45,000 · Human ServicesUNDER 1 ROOF DALLASHOUSING FORWARD — $45,000 · Human ServicesHOUSING FORWARDRestored Hope Ministries Inc — $45,000 · Human ServicesRestored Hope Ministri…The Family Place — $40,000 · Human ServicesThe Family PlaceVOGEL ALCOVE — $35,000 · Human ServicesVOGEL ALCOVEMETROCREST SERVICES — $25,000 · Human ServicesMETROCREST SERVICESTHE BRIDGE — $25,000 · Human ServicesTHE BRIDGEIN MY SHOES INC — $25,000 · Human ServicesIN MY SHOES INCDALLAS FURNITURE BANK — $22,500 · Human ServicesINTERFAITH FAMILY SERVICES — $20,000 · Human ServicesOURCALLING INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesGENESIS WOMENS SHELTER & SUPPORT — $20,000 · Human ServicesSHARING LIFE COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC — $15,500 · Human Services+8 more — $43,500 · Human Services+8 moreLEGAL AID OF NORTHWEST TEXAS — $307,500 · Crime & LegalLEGAL AID OF NORTH…NEW FRIENDS NEW LIFE — $35,000 · Crime & LegalNEW FRIENDS NEW LI…+3 more — $13,000 · Crime & LegalFAMILY GATEWAY INC — $80,000 · Housing & ShelterFAMILY GATEWAY …DALLAS EVICTION ADVOCACY CENTER — $50,000 · Housing & ShelterDALLAS EVICTION…DALLAS MISSION FOR LIFE Doing business as Dallas Life — $50,000 · Housing & ShelterDALLAS MISSION …SHARED HOUSING CENTER INC — $45,000 · Housing & ShelterSHARED HOUSING …PROMISE HOUSE INC — $30,000 · Housing & ShelterPROMISE HOUSE I…SOULS HARBOR INC — $20,000 · Housing & ShelterSOULS HARBOR IN…LIFELINE FOR FAMILIES INC — $15,000 · Housing & ShelterHOME POINT — $10,000 · Housing & ShelterRAINBOW DAYS INC — $45,000 · HealthMOSAIC FAMILY SERVICES INC — $42,500 · HealthNexus Recovery Center Incorporated — $30,000 · HealthRESOURCE CENTER OF DALLAS INC — $25,000 · HealthLEGACY COUNSELING CENTER INC — $22,500 · Health+2 more — $6,000 · HealthTEXAS JUSTICE AND EDUCATION FUND — $75,000 · Civil RightsHUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Civil Rights+1 more — $2,500 · Civil RightsBRIDGE STEPS — $50,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$790,142Human Services$426,500Crime & Legal$355,500Housing & Shelter$300,000Health$171,000Civil Rights$87,500Food & Nutrition$50,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetLEGAL AID OF NORTHWEST TEXAS — $307,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetFAMILY GATEWAY INC — $80,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetTEXAS JUSTICE AND EDUCATION FUND — $75,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetAUSTIN STREET CENTER — $52,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetDALLAS EVICTION ADVOCACY CENTER — $50,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetBRIDGE STEPS — $50,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetDALLAS MISSION FOR LIFE Doing business as Dallas Life — $50,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR JUSTICE EDUCATION FUND — $50,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetUNDER 1 ROOF DALLAS — $45,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetSHARED HOUSING CENTER INC — $45,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetHOUSING FORWARD — $45,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetRAINBOW DAYS INC — $45,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetRestored Hope Ministries Inc — $45,000 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetMOSAIC FAMILY SERVICES INC — $42,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetThe Family Place — $40,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNEW FRIENDS NEW LIFE — $35,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetVOGEL ALCOVE — $35,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetPROMISE HOUSE INC — $30,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNexus Recovery Center Incorporated — $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetRESOURCE CENTER OF DALLAS INC — $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMETROCREST SERVICES — $25,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDALLAS SERVICES — $25,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE BRIDGE — $25,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetIN MY SHOES INC — $25,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetLEGACY COUNSELING CENTER INC — $22,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDALLAS FURNITURE BANK — $22,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetAttitudes & Attire — $22,500 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetSOULS HARBOR INC — $20,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetINTERFAITH FAMILY SERVICES — $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetOURCALLING INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGENESIS WOMENS SHELTER & SUPPORT — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDALLAS LIFE INC — $17,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSHARING LIFE COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC — $15,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLIFELINE FOR FAMILIES INC — $15,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetCOMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGUATEMALA SANA CHILDREN'S PROJECT INC — $15,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetHOCKADAY SCHOOL — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDALLAS 24 HOUR CLUB INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetDallas Area Habitat for Humanity Inc — $14,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGRAND PRAIRIE UNITED CHARITES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetHOME POINT — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE TRIAL LAWYER HALL OF FAME INC — $10,000 over 2y, 8.3% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWHITE ROCK CENTER OF HOPE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetDallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEXODUS MINISTRIES — $10,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF DALLAS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Dallas FoundationCommunities Foundatio…Hillcrest FoundationW P & Bulah Luse Foun…Texas Women's Foundat…United Way of Metropo…Texas Instruments Fou…Hoblitzelle FoundationMeadows Foundation IncKatherine C Carmody C…The Moody FoundationRoy and Christine Stu…
The Dallas FoundationTX71× affinity38 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Dallas Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Hillcrest Foundation · W P & Bulah Luse Foundation · Texas Women's Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation · Hoblitzelle Foundation · Meadows Foundation Inc · Katherine C Carmody Charitable Tuw · The Moody Foundation · Roy and Christine Sturgis Charitable And

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Baron & Blue Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    23report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Baron & Blue Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Baron & Blue Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 89 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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